Washington IrvingHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 304 páginas |
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... RETURN TO AMERICA : SUNNYSIDE : THE MISSION TO MADRID 158 CHAPTER IX . THE CHARACTERISTIC WORKS 190 CHAPTER X. LAST YEARS : THE CHARACTER OF HIS LITERATURE 282 WASHINGTON IRVING . CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY . IT is over vi CONTENTS .
... RETURN TO AMERICA : SUNNYSIDE : THE MISSION TO MADRID 158 CHAPTER IX . THE CHARACTERISTIC WORKS 190 CHAPTER X. LAST YEARS : THE CHARACTER OF HIS LITERATURE 282 WASHINGTON IRVING . CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY . IT is over vi CONTENTS .
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... character in social life , and female virtue is the frail sport of opportunity . Brown's own life was fastidiously correct , but it is a curious commentary upon his estimate of the nat- ural power of resistance to vice in his time ...
... character in social life , and female virtue is the frail sport of opportunity . Brown's own life was fastidiously correct , but it is a curious commentary upon his estimate of the nat- ural power of resistance to vice in his time ...
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... Jane Talbot " appeared somewhat later . In scenery and character , these romances are entirely unreal . There is in them an affectation of psychological purpose which is not very well sustained , and a somewhat clumsy PRELIMINARY . 13.
... Jane Talbot " appeared somewhat later . In scenery and character , these romances are entirely unreal . There is in them an affectation of psychological purpose which is not very well sustained , and a somewhat clumsy PRELIMINARY . 13.
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... characters are seen in a spectral atmosphere . If a romance is to be judged not by literary rules , but by its power of making an im- pression upon the mind , such power as a ghastly story has , told by the chimney- corner on a ...
... characters are seen in a spectral atmosphere . If a romance is to be judged not by literary rules , but by its power of making an im- pression upon the mind , such power as a ghastly story has , told by the chimney- corner on a ...
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... character , are worthy the study of the historian . In politics , the discussion of constitutional questions , of tariffs and finance , had given way to moral agitations . Every political movement was determined by its relation to ...
... character , are worthy the study of the historian . In politics , the discussion of constitutional questions , of tariffs and finance , had given way to moral agitations . Every political movement was determined by its relation to ...
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